Live Eye Tv Mixtape #14 brings you 12 tracks from recent and up-coming releases for your streaming and download pleasures! This month we celebrate the re-issue of The Spirit of the Golden Juice with Sacred Bones, Light In the Attic, and Circadian Press tag-teaming to put out FJ McMahon‘s laconic, heartbreaking masterpiece! In addition, re-issues from Link Wray and Horseback, more archival gems from Can, Cheater Slicks first studio record in 5 years, 8-bit noise from Airick Woodhead’s project Doldrums, Chicago pop-psych outfit Outer Minds, and so much more. Stream the tracks below, download from Soundcloud, or grab the podcast here: iTunes. CONTINUE READING
FJ McMahon‘s Spirit of the Golden Juice has long been one of those holy grail objects for record collectors and fans of outsider music. Put out by Tigereye in 1969, the album was McMahon’s only release. The artist’s early success as a guitarist in Southern California was cut short in the sixties when McMahon was shipped off to Viet Nam. Spirit of the Golden Juice was recorded upon his return, and it is named after a whiskey the soldiers drank, I.W. Harper. On a track like “Way Back Home”, the ease with which McMahon wrings blues from his guitar belies the undeniable heartache breaking at the center of his intimate, post-war portraits. Limited to only 500 copies in deluxe, tip-on jacket with Risographed insert, this is a joint project between Sacred Bones, Light In the Attic, and Circadian Press.
MP3: FJ McMahon “The Road Back Home” (The Circadian Press)
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Sundazed Records is set to issue a limited edition, double 7″ of Link Wray and the Raymen on Black Friday, Nov. 23rd. Sundazed is an archival/re-issue label that puts out cool, rare and out of print music from the 50’s and 60’s. So, just in time for the holidays, a reissuing of these hard to find, long out of print 45s by Link and his backing band the Raymen. The first 45 has the great noir name Big City After Dark, with “Hold It” as the b-side. The 2nd single is the ultra-rare “Dance Party Pt 1”, backed by “Dance Party Pt 2″. Per the Sundazed site, only a small batch of these are being issued and once they are gone, that’s it. Check out the Jim Thompson-esque titled song, “Big City After Dark”.
MP3: Link Wray “Big City After Dark” (Sundazed Records)
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The Cheater Slicks bring twenty-five years of apocalyptic, garage rock to the table, and the trio is back with their first studio album in five years, Reality Is A Grape. The album drops October 31st on the excellent punk label Columbus Discount Records, and they have this to say about the record, “The band worked and re-worked this batch of songs for almost three years. It was recorded and mixed at CDR on 100% analog gear over the course of a year and a half. The artwork will be hand screen printed by the band and label. Hand Made in Columbus, OH w/ no digital processing whatsoever.” To get a flavor of the up-coming LP, give a listen to the ear punishing “Love Ordeal” on which singer/guitarist Tom Shannon spews a quarter century of psychodrama from his twisted soul.
MP3: Cheater Slicks “Love Ordeal” (Columbus Discount Records)
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Canadian trash-pop experimentalist Airick Woodhead’s project Doldrums is readying a new LP, ‘Lesser Evil’ for a February 26th release on Artbus Records. In anticipation, he has a limited edition 7″ for the single “She Is the Wave”, with “Dysphonia” on the B-side, and an insanely awesome screen printed cover by Woodhead himself. The Toronto/Montreal artist began the project in 2010 by posting videos and designing websites for fake bands, until the name Doldrums stuck. His music has a whatever-is- at-hand feel, and on a track like “She Is the Wave” Woodhead assembles 8-bit samples with various space trash, and sets it all off with his giddy, androgynous voice for a sugar-coated exploration of the quantum physics of male/female relationships.
MP3: Doldrums “She Is The Wave” (Artbus Records)
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Chicago pop-psych outfit Outer Minds has released their second album of the year, which is no easy feat! Behind the Mirror is out now digitally on FDH and Red Lounge, but a visit to the FDH site tells us vinyl is on it’s way this November. Keep your finger’s crossed, as these five children of the forest gods create a particularly addicting 60’s-style sound, with their revved for the stratosphere psych complimented by rollicking male/female harmonies. Check out the late-night roadhouse burner, “Those Machines”, and hope the party is coming to your town soon!
MP3: Outer Minds “Those Machines” (FDH/Red Lounge)
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Get a load of this track “Raider” by the punk band Taco Leg. Hailing from Perth, Australia, Taco Leg’s self-titled debut album on Baltimore’s Fan Death Records comes out Nov 20th . Clocking in at just under two minute “Raider”, has a brash, 70’s UK punk sound, and seems to have something to do with the Indiana Jones’ film, Raiders of The Lost Ark!
MP3: Taco Leg “Raiders” (Fan Death Records)
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If you’ve been playing along, you know Teen‘s In Limbo (Carpark Records) has been one of our favorite records of the year. The band began as a solo project for Teeny Lieberson, formerly of Here We Go Magic, while that band was on hiatus. Liebersons four-track project quickly expanded when she added her sisters Lizzie and Katherine, as well as long time friends Jane Herships and Maia Ibar. The ladies recorded the tracks for ‘In Limbo’ at Ibar’s family barn in rural Connecticut, with Pete Kember of Spacemen 3 signing on to produce and mix the album at his UK studio, New Atlantis. Here’s a great remix of “Electric” by NYC producer DJ Japanster that pairs Teens organic and psychedelic post-punk, with four on the floor beats and house-inflected, filtering synths.
MP3: Teen “Electric (DJ Japanster Remix)”
What says autumn better than the arctic noir of The Soft Moon? Call it dark wave, cold wave, or whatever, Luis Vasquez has held himself hostage in his Oakland apartment and produced another album of magisterial death pop for his new Captured Tracks release, Zeros. The multi-instrumentalist again choose to work solo for this release, but has said in recent interviews that up-coming work will be recorded with a full band. Either way, Vasquez’s aesthetic is so dialed in, I doubt you’ll loose much, though part of what makes these tracks so gothic are their claustrophobic, existential obsessions. For instance, on “Insides” malicious rays of synth scour the ice fields of the psyche looking for one drop of real blood!
MP3: The Soft Moon “Insides” (Captured Tracks)
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Since bonding over a Chinese violin, the UK duo Peepholes have used an experimental, process-oriented approach for the creation of their music. Patiently evolving through several different stages and instrumentation, the band has left pieces of evidence as to their endeavors on the labels Hungry For Power and Upset the Rhythm. The duo is comprised of Bahranian-born Katia Barrett on drums/vocals, as well as Irishman Nick Carlisle on keyboards/vocals. On their debut LP The Overspill (Upset the Rhythm), the band continues to experiment having recorded two improvised sessions earlier this year in London at the DIY studio, Power Lunches. These sessions were edited and reworked over a six-month period, and the resulting LP swings wildly between manic, post-punk and infectious electro-dance throwdowns. Check out the way “Marimba” unleashes the throbbing of a 4/4 low-end drone, a flurry of keys, and Katia’s indiscriminant singing to eery effect, before bursting into primal, kinetic interplay between drum machine marimbas and live drumming, that demands your body respond.
MP3: Peepholes “Marimba”(Upset the Rhythm)
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On December 4th Mute and Spoon Records will unleash the 5 LP box set of Can’s The Lost Tapes on 180g vinyl. This re-issue will come with a 24” poster and a 28 page booklet with notes from founding member Irmin Schmidt. The tracks range from 1968 thru 1977, with vocals from both original lead singer Malcolm Mooney and later lead man Damo Suzuki. The music off The Lost Tapes is not b-sides or outtakes, but rather fully realized tracks shelved for different reasons. Some, were soundtrack music for films that were never made, or songs that, due to space, didn’t make it onto albums. For the Can fan, this is not to be missed. Below is a the track “Waiting for the Streetcar” from the soon to be released 5 LP Boxset.
MP3: Can “Waiting For The Streetcar”(Mute and Spoon Records)
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The Three Lobed label has just reissued and combined into one CD/LP Horseback’s 2007 album Impale Golden Horn, and the cassette only, out-of-print Forbidden Planet. Hailing from Chapel Hill, NC., Horseback has been putting out their ambient and psychedelic drone metal since 2007. Listen to “Golden Horn” from their Impale Golden Horn album. The song is full of distorted, murky guitars and melodic piano sounds drifting under waves of lush noise, with hints of synthesizers and soft vocals creating a blissed out ambience that swells and builds at a glacial speed.
MP3: Horseback “The Golden Horn” (3LOBED)
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On this dark and lovely home-recorded gem, Marissa Nadler covers Daniel Johnston‘s “Devil Town”. Johnston’s 1990 a cappella ditty is a classic from those pre-grunge days, incisively getting at that feeling of growing up in a narrow, Nowheresville town, and displaying Johnston’s genius for writing timeless pop. Posted to Soundcloud for Halloween, Nadler tells us that “Devil Town” is one of her favorite Daniel Johnston songs, and it features her on guitar, vox, harmonica, and, of course, vocals! Oh yeah, looks like she has also recently covered Johnston’s “True Love Will Find You In the End“, as well as Duran Duran’s “Ordinary World“!
MP3: Marissa Nadler “Devil Town (Daniel Johnston Cover)” (self-released download)
